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This used to be a thing. It was when you paid $60-120 a month for your cable TV package.

Did you really think everyone was gonna let you cut that down to $10 a month?




It is still more than they would get from many of us any other way. Before Spotify I'll buy less than a cd every second or third month maybe.

Now I'd probably just stop watching movies. Others will start pirating again.


Spotify also doesn't pay the artists enough for most of them to survive. Studios know this. They know that $10/month isn't enough to support the creation of all the original content that has been supported in the past by $100/month.


I have a hunch that studios will find a way to pocket about the same amount of money that Spotify already does. Just based on the reports of how they treat non-superstar artists already with hollywood acounting [0].

They want more money for the studio to survive, not artists. Artists are probably "a dime a dozen", and possible to manufacture from a studios perspective.

[0]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100712/23482610186.shtml




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